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Dudley Field Malone Will Speak and "The American Congo" is to be Described at Annual N. A. A. C. P. Meet. New York City.—A mass meeting to arouse public sentiment to the wrongs suffered by the Afro-American particularly in the South, will be held Jan. 5 in Cooper Union here on the occasion of the N. A. A. C. P.'s annual meeting. Dudley Field Malone (white) is to be the chief speaker. Editor Wm. DuBois' subject*will be "The American Congo," a description of conditions in the South rivalling the horrors of the Belgian Congo. Other speakers: John Haynes Holmes and M. H. Gassaway, who was threatened with assassination in Anderson, S. C., because of his connection with the local branch of the organization. The mass meeting is to be preceded by a business meeting at 2 P. M., at the Sage Foundation building. DEATH ORDERS SET ASIDE Wilson Vacates Sentences of Three Army Officers Washington, D. C.—Conviction of three officers of the 368th infantry, on charges growing out of the failure of that regiment to hold its place in line near Binarville, France, Sept. 28, 1918, have been set aside by President Wilson. Army orders published, Saturday, recorded executive action in the cases of Lieuts. Horace R. Crawford, Judge Cross and Robert W. Cheers, each of whom had been sentenced to death on charges of having violated the 75th article of war. The specification in each case charged the officer with having "shamefully" retreated from the enemy. This was wrong. THE GAZETTE FROM Other Styles of GAS HEATERS From $3.00 to $15.00 COAL HEATERS $11.00 to $24.00 COAL-OIL HEATERS $6.25 to $9.00 ELECTRIC HEATERS Capable of heating a good-sized room, $10.50 GAS and COMBINATION RANGES From $16.00 to $110.00 We Install NEW FURNACES and REPAIR OLD ONES REPAIR and RENEW Gutters and Spouting If you are not already one of our customers, we cordially invite you to become one. HARDWARE CO. CLEVELAND, O. ANOTHER VALUABLE INVENTION By a Member of the Race—Four Hundred to Our Credit Boston, Mass.—The following is an editorial note from the Christian Science Monitor, a local daily: "The device used recently in establishing a new record in deep-sea diving was the invention of an Afro-American mechanic, who had already won distinction as a daring diver. His latest achievement again draws attention to the honorable place which men of his race have had in the development of arts and technical devices in the United States. Investigations at the Patent Office, in Washington, show upward of 400 patents taken out by Afro-Americans. These are for inventions in many fields, varying all the way from mechanisms for the lubrication of machinery to improvements in telephone and telegraph instruments. In connection with this record descent to the sea floor, it is worth recalling that as long ago as 1782 Thomas Jefferson was so impressed with the astronomical observations of an Afro-American (Benjamin Banneker) that he presented records of them to the Academy of Sciences in Paris. Thus the man of African descent seems to dare all ```markdown ``` After Jan. 1, 1920, THE GA-ZETTE will cost two dollars a year. This is made necessary, at last, by the high cost of everything used in the printing and publishing business. If you owe for your subscription be sure to pay before the first of the new year and save fifty cents. EDITOR. ESTABLISHED AUGUST 25,1883 And Issued Every Week on Time Since CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1919 EVEN IN AFRICA Native Negroes are Disfranchised Segregated and Denied Rights! Virtual Slaves in Their Own Land—Both The Dutch and the English Responsible for this Sad Condition MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR—TO ALL! LONDON, England- During the recent visit of the "South African Native Delegation" to England, Mr. Sol Plaatje, one of its members, was invited by the British Dominions Women Citizens Union, London, to address a meeting of the members on the position of the native population of South Africa. From the native standpoint, Mr. Plaatje gave a clear statement of the problems which brought him, and his colleagues to England, which is here summarized. They had been sent over, he said, by the National Native Congress of South Africa with a memorial to His Majesty the King, requesting freedom and justice for the 5,250,000 natives of South Africa, and for those of Rhodesia under the British Chartered Company, who were, by the Act of Union of South Africa agreed to by the Imperial Parliament, debared from enfranchisement. This was the first time in the history of England that a "color" bar had been agreed to and he and his friends hold that it constitutes an infringement of the following conditions in the Royal Letters Patent to Natal, 1843: Slavery in Any Ferm Unlawful "That there shall not be, in the eye of the law, any disqualification whatever, founded on mere distinction of color, origin, language, or creed; but that the protection of the law, in letter and substance, shall be extended impartially to all alike. That no aggression shall be sanctioned upon the natives residing beyond the limits of the colony, under any plea whatever by private persons or by any body of men, unless acting under immediate authority of the government. That slavery, in any shape, or under any modification, is absolutely unlawful, the disfranchition of Her Majesty's dominations." The Charter of Natal, of 1856, gave parliamentary representation to all subjects, but in 1865 the natives were disfranchised, and from that time to the present have been taxed without representation and treated with great injustice. In 1855 the native mission reserves, which were held by natives under a deed of grant, and under which they were entitled to live rent free, were converted into private properties, and the natives had hence forth to pay rent for the land. In all the provinces, the natives are taxed directly and indirectly without representation, and in addition, are compelled to pay a special native tax. They have no redress, no protection; they cannot be members of the Dutch Reformed Church, nor enter skilled trades, nor obtain proper education for their children. Natives Land Act White people seem to find it difficult to understand what it means to the natives to be deprived of land. To them land is part of their being; their ancestral life was the tending of land and flocks, but, under present conditions they are practically divorced from the land. In 1913 the Union Parliament passed the Natives' Land Act which prohibits the natives from buying of Jeasing land in their own country, except on the stony or swampy lands of the Union. In 1917, the Boer Government secured the second reading, by a majority of the Boos, of the Native Affairs Administration Bill, which was so drastic that the British members of the Union Parliament voted solidly against it. Through the representations made by the Native National Congress, and through the intervention of missionaries and other friends of the natives, the enaction of these natives has been postponed till 12 months after the measure was introduced. 1918, which, if carried into law, will mean that the natives will not be allowed to buy or lease land in any of the towns or villages of the Union. The delegation holds that the Governor of Natal in 1884 allowed the land of the Zulus to pass into the hands of the Boers against the proclamation of Sir Garnet Wolsley, incorporated in the Zulukland Annexation Act of 1897, Sir Garnet Wolsley saying: "I have been very careful in stating to all persons concerned that Her Majesty wished to leave the Zulu country to its own people, and entertained no idea of annexation," and in his instructions to the British resident he said, "The High Commissioner has assured the chiefs that there is no intention on our part of settling white people in Zulukland, and that the British Government will not recognize the chiefs as representatives to white people. This promise must be strictly kept, and it will be your duty to exercise constant vigilance that no act is done and countenanced by you which could, by any possibility, be construed as a departure from the understanding of the British Government in this respect." Protection Not Given The delegates declare that the protection womised has not been given, and that the slaves before their emancipation lived under better conditions. They consider that the argument that Germany should have been stripped of her African colonies because of her failure to give justice and freedom to the natives loses weight when the treatment of the natives under the Union Jack is considered. The Assistant Secretary of State for the Colonies informed the delegates that they must return to South Africa and make representations to the government there, as the Imperial Government cannot interfere in the affairs of a self-governing dominion. The delegates maintain that South Africa is not a self-governing Dominion; it is a white-governing Dominion—even the natives of Cape Province may lose their representation by a two-thirds majority of the House of Assembly. They hold, moreover, that since the Imperial Parliament before the union was sole trustee of the natives, since it consented to the inclusion of the "color" bar in the Constitution, since it interfered with the Belgian Government against the Congo atrocities, and in the case of the Indians in South Africa, similar in SHOULDER! tervention should be made on behalf of the natives. In 1900 Lord Selborne, when speaking at the University of the Cape of Good Hope, asked white men to consider whether they had ever calculated the cumulative effect on the natives of the policy of pin pricks. Lord Selborne cited examples such as in some places refusing to permit a native, however personally clean, to civilize himself, to drive to civilize himself, to walk on the pavement of the public streets; in other places forbidding him to go into a public park or to pay for the privilege of watching a game of cricket, in others forbidding him to ride on the top of a tram car—even in specified seats set apart for him. Lord Selborne's Promises. After reciting these and other examples Lord Selborne said: "Now let a white man put himself in the post, and would like it, and let him ask whether such regulations and laws really make his task easier." Since Lord Seborne spoke the burdens placed on the natives it is stated, have become heavier, and unable to get redress from the Union Government, the delegates appeal on their behalf to the British people in whom they have implicit confidence. In 1916 Mr. Plattie was presented in London with an address by English friends which said, "At the close of the war we shall do all in our power to help you to regain that justice and freedom to which, as loyal British subjects, your people are justly entitled." Amongst the signatories was Sir Richard Wintrefy, Secretary for Agriculture. The aims of the natives are warmly supported by many leading men in official circles, who understand the conditions under which they live, but the delegates, believing that the time has come for action, appeal to the British people. They firmly believe that the British people will not consent to over 5,500,000 of "colored" people being oppressed under the British flag.—Christian Science Monitor, Boston, Mass. R. NATHANIEL DETT In a lengthy review of R. Nathaniel Dett's compositions, Frederick Martens, contributing editor of "Musical America," in its December issue, says: "No, there can be no doubt but that Nathaniel Dett has set a hallmark, a standard on his work as a composer in these new scores of his which cannot well be questioned. And for this all lovers of the sincere and beautiful in music may be grateful." Speaking of Mr. Dett's latest composition, "Chariot Jubilee," Mr. Martens says: "It is only a short score of some thirty-one pages, yet may claim to be a masterpiece of its kind. It has that inner cohesion, that unity of inspiration, of progressive culminating movement, the free yet musically lyrical simultaneous development which harmonizes with detail with breadth of outline, all of which is so much more important than any mere outward inspiration in inspired formal composition. If R. Nathaniel Dett had written no other work, the "Chariot Jubiles" would suffice to make his name. It has potentialities of effect present in very few, if any, choral works of its length." This and other Dett compositions are published in a book with the title "Religious Folk Songs of the Negro." He is a fine pianist and a member of the faculty of Hampton, Va. N. and I Institute, in charge of its music department. A credit to the race. "Any prejudice whatever will be insurmountable if those who do not share in it themselves truckle to it and flatter it and accept it is a law of nature."— John Stuart Mill. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS His Strong Letters to Supreme Court Justices Washington, D. C., Nov. 26th, '19 Justice Frederick L. Siddons, District Supreme Court, Washington, D. C. My dear Justice Siddons: I was refused service in our public restaurant in our Court House on Saturday IN THE NAME OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Can it be true that a COURT OF JUSTICE has ordered COLOR to be the measure of men's deserts and privilege? Certainly the lady manager has committed a grave error in the manifesty of the Court and the judiciary hold in our national life. I know that the Court has not followed the reactionary policy of our corrupt politicians, who, instead of rewarding our heroism and full performance of civic duty with the removal of past disabilities, are busy placing additional burdens upon us. This Court House, and all of its conveniences and privileges belong to us as much as they do to the whites. Our colored lawyers are much discouraged ever this insult (if the lady's statement is accurate) and will be very distrustful in the future. The colored public will be more embittered than they are, to see the Court, their last hope, forsake them. Only last week two cultivated colored ladies, litigants in your Court to which they had gone in full confidence of getting justice, were refused before a large crowd of white diners because they wanted luncheon during the noon recess of the Court; hence they had to return to Court and remain the rest of the day with their hunger, fatigue, and worse, their humiliation and sense of wrong. None of the Central Powers which we were called upon to fight would even dream of hurling such wicked insult at us. My dear sir, when Courts fail, what else is left a people? Certainly, no one expects us to endure our numberless wrongs much longer. The constant increase of radical publications among us, enlisting the talents of our university men and brave soldiers who have faced Germany's awful fire, while so many white slackers were dodging battle in sinecure commissions and making new restrictions to reward our returning heroes, means that we must get the democracy we were told, and drafted in overwhelming numbers, to die for. We have entered the world unrest, and with the rest of the submerged groups we are conscious of our wrongs and powers. "We have nothing to lose but our chains," as we are worse off than any other people in the world. Alone with the general oppression, the attorney general recommends the passage of a law to keep children people from being inward occupied to him to our great office to make the white "Reds" quit lynching, "jim-crowing," selling justice, stealing school funds, exploiting Negro labor, and raping defenseless colored women with impunity. These are the cause of unrest among Negroes, and until these crimes are no longer committed the unrest will increase. Knowing that you, having been born in a land that has never been cursed by the crime of color caste, will contribute nothing to our present suffering, I have the honor to remain. Very respectfully yours. (Signed) Neyal H. Thomas. Washington, D. C. Dec. 2nd, 1919. Justice Gould, Supreme Court of the District, Washington, D. C. Dear Sir: Please don't take anything I say in this letter to yourself I have never had the honor of knowing you personally, but many of my friends have told me of your fair-mindedness and fine conception of judicial duty. So I am constrained to exempt you from all suspicion of responsibility to the outrageous injustice I have received at the Court House. I received a second insult on Saturday in the name of the Supreme Court of the District, the last place to which the citizen can go for justice! Ye Gods! What is becoming of our social structure! When the Courts fail there is nothing left a submerged people but Slavery or Revolution, and a race that is fit to live will choose the Latter! This issue is more than eating. It is a sacred democratic principle that is outraged, as sacred as life itself. I went to the restaurant and found that—true to the lady manager's statement of the week before that the Court ordered me to be a restaurant—a Negro restaurant was created during the week across the hall, with a screen before the door so that no white person would be hurt by the unsightly sight of a Negro eating in his own building. The chief IN UNION IN STRONG COPY FIVE CENTS DER! MAS STRIKES! letters to Supreme justices Columbia—A Manly Man for The Race erless! Justice denies all knowledge of the creation of this dirty hate, yet the lady said she had been ordered to create it. If the Court did not order it then the lady is remitably accurate in her prophecy, and if it did order it, as the lady said, the Court has stained its toga and sullied its sacred rermine. If the lady did create it without the Court's knowledge, then she should be disciplined for this serious reflection upon the honor of the Court. I noticed that when I brought it to the attention of the Court, I did not summon her and order the doors closed once I remained around the hinge on over an hour, and when I left it was still open. The Chief Justice could not have been dispeaced with its loathsome presence there. Again, the Chief Justice said that the Court would perhaps close the whole thing. My dear Sir, the closing of that public restaurant can be construed as nothing but a spineless concession to prejudice. Was there ever a greater argument for the judicial recall and the popular election of judges? Would the Supreme Court, responsible to a constituency one third of which are Negroes, ever decide to deny it? You can not imagine the distrust of the Court that this discrimination has caused among the colored lawyers, litigants, and the colored public. There can be no such thing as Injustice on the Second Floor and Justice on the First. If Upfairs the Court can take away my civil rights, Downstairs it can take away my property rights, and become the thirteenth member of a prejudiced white jury to take my life away. There will be one and the same thing on both sides of the Court, and immediately remedy the injustice, and rebuke the perpetrator, it will make all of our lofty professions of justice and democracy a brazen lie. I am in this fight to stay. I am a subordinate of the Court, being a teacher in the public schools, but I am willing to risk my position, endure imprisonment for contempt of court, or anything else that might come to me. I do not make this statement as a threat, but as member of the national directorate of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, a nationwide movement of 300 branches and 100,000 members with many influential white people in it who can reach the associated press. I am going to appeal from the Supreme Court of the District to the Supreme Court of Public Opinion. The Nation must know of this last blow at the aspirations of a struggling people. I have no words with which to express my feeling at the meanness, and the disgusting pettiness of it all. Assuring you of my entire confidence in you, and two other members of the Court, I have the honor to re- Very truly yours, (Signed) Neval H. Thomas. (In connection with the foregoing read our Washington, D. C. letter rep ublic on page 4 of this paper.—Edi- tor.) In California Growing Brazen—Sup't. Wood O. K. Sacramento, Cal.-A girl of the race is the storm center around which the board of trustees, the teachers and the pupils of the Calexico Imperial Catholic school are revolving, according to a letter received by Will C. Wood, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, last week. The Afro-American pupil ranks highest in educational attainments among the 150 students, and the white girl scholars have refused to sit on the same platform with her at the coming graduation exercises, according to information received by Mr. Wood. Job Wood, Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction, sent a letter to the Calexico trustees telling them: "If those white girls refuse to graduate with the girl with whom they have attended school through all of these years, they should go back into the public schools and have a real training for American citizenship." He also says that if there are any exercises, the girl must be on the All matter for our next issue must be so mailed as to ARRIVE on MONDAY. Place your letter in your CENTRAL Post Office on SUNDAY, at the latest. EDITOR. The GAZETTE PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY One Year ..... $1.50 Six Months ..... 1.00 Three months ..... .50 Subscribers are requested to remit by postoffice money order or reg- istered letter Entered at the postoffice in Cleveland, Ohio, as second-class mail matter. Address all communications to HARR. C. SMITH Editor and publisher. THE GAZETTE is the oldest, and has the largest bona fide circulation. Double that of any newspaper in the interest of Afro-Americans, published in the state of Ohio, and comparsion with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWS-TEST AND BEST in the country. 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 200,000 in Ohio. 25,000 in Cleveland. CLEVELAND, O., DEC. 27, 1919. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! A New Years' gift de luxe to a friend is a year's subscription to "The Old Reliable" Gazette. Until next Thursday—$1.50 a year. If you owe for your subscription be sure to remit before that date and save fifty cents. --- As most of our readers have learned, it is almost impossible these days, for newspapers generally to get decent print paper. So be patient a while longer and don't find faul with that we are compelled to use (we hope) for only a very brief period. The President is reported as still adamant in his determination not to make the slighest concession in regard to the peace treaty and league of nations. He will continue his uncompromising fight to satisfy the avarice of Europe at the expense of the liberties and wealth of America. Wilson's stubbornness continues. We simply must put the Republican Congress on record. A bill must be introduced wiping out the miserable "jim crow" car system so far as it affects interstate passengers, and our leaders given to understand that they must not only see that this is done but also see to it that every Republican member of that august body is made to show where he stands on that all important matter to us. Dr. Harry Garfield, real American showed that he is an upstanding and self respecting man when he resigned after his plans for the settlement of the coal strike had been thrown into the discard and a scheme of compromise substituted that had been concocted by the two Wilson's—the President and Secretary of Labor. Had Mr. Lansing done the same when he was openly ignored by the President in Paris he would have had a far higher place in the minds of the people today. Secretary Lansing has consented to a reversal of his policy toward Mexico and the substitution of one of the President's own making. This is not the first time that Mr. Lansing has been made to feel the displeasure of his superior in office. It is not likely that he will ever forget his experiences in Paris. Whatever criticism may be made of Lansing's predecessor at the head of the State Department it must be admitted that when Mr. Bryan found that his policies were not those of his master in the White House he had the good taste and courage to resign. In the last thirty-five years we have had just two members of the race at Washington who have had and have the backbone and courage as well as the ability to "talk right out in meeting" in behalf of the race, and those two persons were Rev. Townsend, (deceased), of the great A. M. E. Church, who was a chief in the General Land Office of the government, and Prof. Neval H. Thomas, a teacher in Dunbar High School, that city. One man of their kind is worth more to the race than a regiment of the spineless sort not represented by men like Thomas and Wm. Monroe Trotter. May their kind and number increase a hundred fold. You can depend upon the Wilson administration, or any other Democratic administration, to stand in with the Southern sugar industry. After a Democratic tariff law had removed the protective duty from almost everything else, and had set a date for removal of the duty on sugar, the Democratic Congress repealed the clause that would put sugar on the free list, thus discriminating in favor of that industry. Today, every act of the administration that has anythin to do with sugar, is in the interests of the Southern sugar producer. Republicans believe in building up American industry, but they believe in following a definite policy that applies to all industries alike. DR. JAMES E. GREGG WRONG. It is not only the Senate of the United States that is standing in the way and preventing the Treaty of Peace from being passed, so as to permit the governments of the world to get down to the business of improving the treaty wherever it may need improvement, and the life of the nations to take up its normal course again. It is not only the Senate of the United States, but there are others in this country supporting the Senate and following the same course of selfishness, when America had made her name honored and beloved throughout the world by her unselfish, generous participation in the Great War—Dr. James E. Gregg, press, Hampton, Va. No and 1. Institute. There is not a word of truth in the foregoing and President Gregg, if he has read the reservations and the sections of the Wilson-George-Smuts "League of Notions (Nations)" they affect, must know it. "The U. S. Senate and others in this country supporting it" are not preventing the treaty of peace from being ratified; are not "preventing the governments of the world from getting down to business of improving on the treaty wherever it may need improvement and the life of the nations to take up its normal course again," and are not "following the same course of selfishness." On the contrary, President Wilson and others in this country supporting him are guilty of all these things. President Gregg is wrong again when he says "the American people have a place in their hearts for Theodore Roosevelt and admire him." There are a large number of the ten million Afro-Americans who donot admire Theodore Brownsville Roosevelt and who have no place in their hearts for him, either, and who object to President Gregg or any one saying the opposite is true. Only he needs to get more familiar with both subjects before writing on them for the "Hampton Institute Press Service" or any other "service" or publication. Additional Local Boydston post "Xmas stunt" night Monday, proved very enjoyable. The editor acknowledges the receipt of an invitation and regrets his inability to be present as desired. Dr. Geo. E. Haynes, of the Labor Department, Washington, D. C., recently appointed by the inter church movement to supervise a religious survey among our people addressed a conference of about fifteen of our local ministers at the Royal Inn Monday evening, which was attended also by Rev. E. R. Wright, secretary of the local Federation of Churches Rev. Blanchard and several other local white ministers. Dinner was to be made in February ad March. Some of our local Baptist ministers donot favor the movement. STANDS FOR RACE EQUALITY The President of Brazil Also States How He Voted at the Peace Conference. Rio Janeiro, Brazil—Dr. Epitapio Pessoa, president of Brazil and former chairman of the Brazilian delegation to the World Peace Conference, in a public statement, Dec. 11, said that as head of the Brazilian delegation he always voted in favor of the recognition of the equality of races when the question came up before the League of Nations committee. Dr. Pessoa asserted that he had been guided in this matter solely by respect for the democratic traditions of his country and his own sentiments, which always had been above race prejudice. The statement was the outcome of a renewal of reports, current in the early days of the peace congress, that Dr. Pessoa favored President Wilson's solemn U.S. policy of non-immigration of the equality of nations and voted in favor of equality only upon the insistence of other members of the Brazilian delegation. As to Honking and Steering. Honking your horn doesn't help so much as steering wisely.—Forbes Magazine. THE GAZETTE. CLEVELAND. OHIO. DECEMBER 27. 1919 EDWARD VII WAS WEANED OF KULTUR PROF. GOLDWYN SMITH LED PRINCE OUT OF TEUTONISM IN MOTHER'S COURT Germanism Born In The Blood Of England's Royal Family The ghost of the recently deceased office of the censor in his majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland will trail his article across the Atlantic and utter still and mountainous coast, when it becomes print. There is not a newspaper in the kingdom that could be hired at whatever price to publish this article. And yet the writer claims for it that it is only legend. He cannot verify a single fact in it; nor could the most resolute and resourceful journalist in the world. The story set forth is one of those curtain tales that pass from mouth to mouth in the political clubs, command credence everywhere but are never published in Britain. It has a bit of bit, but authority confirms what the preceding one said and adds "but you don't know the rest of it" whereupon he adds to the mosaic. With this elaborate "alibi" go on and read this legend of how the seeds of the great trouble between Germany and Britain were sown away back in Queen Victoria's time and were duly nourished in the stripping plant of hate by a Cambridge professor and a prince who later became a diplomat-king, and how Victoria, German to the end of her long days, remembered her grandson, John the财 the financial detriment of her own son and heir to her throne, Albert Edward. It is a matter of history, more or less admitted by the most conservative English historian, that when William IV died after a very short reign, with no male issue, a very powerful combination of English dukes sharing common disgust at the Hanoverian line of German kings that had ruled England since the time of George I, moved heaven and earth to keep "another German and a woman to boot" off the English throne. It is unnecessary to review the jockeying that finally put the sixteen-year-old girl on the throne; but one of the compromises was that henceforth the German Britain should break from the custom of her ancestors which had been to consider Britain a more applique to the German dominion of Hanover. The new queen must be queen of Britain first, last and all the time. Howe, Victoria, through her ministers' first and, as she came to maturity, by virtue, of her own will, may have adhered to the letter of the compromise, in spirit she remained almost wholly Germa. Though a diplomatic effort was made to arrange for her a marriage with a titled Englishman, an ancient family, determined upon the choice in the person Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg Gotha—a German of the Germans. From the beginning to the end of her reign the queen insisted that German should be the language of the breakfast table. German, as well as English, was the language of the royal nursery—which was as well populated a nursery as that of the present Queen of Spain. Her first child, the Princess Royal Victoria, also she married to the Emperor Frederick of Germany, and she became the mother of Wilhelm H. Her second son, born to the title of Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, as well as to that of Duke of Edinburgh, followed his mother's predilections, preferred to be wholly German and lived in Germany most of the time. Upon his death he was succeeded in the title to the German principality by Queen Victoria's younger son, the Duke of Albany; he, too, was essentially German and lived in Germany. But the notable exception to this Germanism that was born in the blood of England's royal family and emphasized in the nursery was Albert Edward, the Prince Wales, instead of King to Oxford, where some of the blood were accustomed to go he insisted upon Cambridge. There Prof. Goldwyn Smith took the young future King of England under his charge. Goldwin Smith, whose death in America a few years ago marked the passing of one of the acknowledged great literary men of the latter Victorian era, represented in the university the same underground spirit of revolt against the German tendencies of the Victorian regime that carried through the country's political life. Also he stood for a new idea in diplomatic daring—the rapprochement with the ancient enemy, France, and the more recent enemy Russia, to the isolation of growing Prussia and the cultivation of a friendship with France and Russia which might bear fruits in an alliance. The story goes that Goldwyn Smith exercised a profound influence in shaping Albert Edward's conception of a proper future diplomatic policy for Britain which would break with the queen's steadily nurtured love for everything German. It is no matter of secret history that when the prince became Edward VII, he did as much as or more than any of his diplomats in bringing about the triple entente and laying the groundwork for German resentment and Wilhelm's rattling of the saber, which finally became a dreadful reality. This tale carries so far as to say that he was facing the one chiefly responsible for his son's defection from her cherished hobby moved to secure Goldwyn Smith's dismissal from the Cambridge faculty and even made it more comfortable for him to move his residence permanently to Canada. But here again, the cautious narrator insists there is no verification forthcoming. Of French Origin. * The prefix Fitz (the son of), so common in England, is supposed to have originated in Flanders. It is remarkable that it is now unknown in France, but it occurs in the ancient documents and chronicles of that country. It was brought to England by the Normans under William the Conqueror. DOINGS OF THE RACE The American Color Co., is conceded to be making the best dyes in this country. Rt. Rev Alexander E. Camphor of Liberia, Africa, the only active Negro bishop in the M. E. Church died there, Dec. 10. Bishop W. P., Thirkildd urges Afro-American Episcopal bishops for the "Negro" members of that church in America. More segregation. Jack Green of Lancaster, Wisc., confessed slayer of George Duncan (white), automobile man, will fight for his freedom as he fought for the honor of his 14-year-old daughter Dena. Mr. Jonas Thomas, farmer and business man of Bennettville, S. C. has sold, this year, 700 bales of cotton and has 200 more to sell. He is treasurer of the Workers' Enterprise bank; capital $50,000. A New Years' gift de luxe to a friend is a year's subscription to "The Old Reliable" Gazette. Until next Thursday-$1.50 a year. Better pay your subscription before that day if you owe. Save fifty cents! Mrs. Lillie Robinson won her suit recently against the Memphis, Tennessee Railway Co. and received $1,000 damages for injuries. Ernest Bozeman got $500 from the commissioners of the same city for injuries sustained from beatings while an inmate of the workhouse. He died recently after a protracted illness. Mr. Ellis was one of the scholarly men of the race, and for eight years was secretary to the U. S. Legation in Liberia, Africa. He has written and published some valuable books, and until his illness was assistant Corporation Counsel of Chicago. "When we quietly countenance the rob rule that has been set up by some American Legion posts in some of the cities and towns over the country we are putting forth the desire of the Legion."—Pres. Dan Tallen speaking to the American Legion Post, N. Y. City. Captain Daniel Smith, of the 368th Reg., 92nd Div. A, E. F., who was one of our officers tried by court martial and sentenced to death on a charge of alleged cowardice, has been honorably exonerated and restored to duty by Secretary of War Baker, who signed the order "by direction of the President." Captain Smith's conviction on the charge of "shamefully" "retreating and running from the enemy on Sept. 28, 1918, when his regiment was ordered to advance near Vienna-le-Chateau, is disapproved and ordered set aside. Miss Coral T. Smith, of Norfolk, Va., who was admitted to the nurse training department of Bellevue and Allied Hospitals, for a six months post-graduate course and then dismissed from the Harlem Hospital after two days because "no Negro nurses were accepted" at that institution, is back at her post in the Harlem, N. Y. hospital, under much more advantageous conditions than at first Nine Americans have been killed in Mexico since July 31st; thirty-six Americans have been killed by mobs in the United States, since the same date. Our own record is no apology for anyone else. It does not bring back lives lost in Mexico. But there are public officials who war with the police for a crime whose commission they will pardon by silence, when it is done on our own side of the Rio Grande.—The New Republic, N. Y. City. ANOTHER SOLDIER KILLED Why "Colored People Leave the South" - Personal Items. Cadiz, O. — Messrs. Marion and Merritt Jackson of Harrisville were here, last week. — Mrs. Noble Mason is visiting her parents in Ravenna. — Miss Elise Ballard is home from Kent Normal school. — Mrs. Wesley Jackson of Harrisville was the guest of Mrs. Mary Brown, Sunday. — Mr. B. S. Lee and son, Summer, spent Sunday in Wheeling. — Miss Nellie Glenn has gone home to Maryville to spend her Christmas vacation. — Prof. Harry H. Jones, assistant principal of Lincoln High school, Wheeling, delivered his address, "The Inter-racial Crisis in America," to an appreciated audience. Sunday. — Boarding a Central of Georgia passenger train, Monday, at Smithville, Ga., a mob of about fifty white brutes seized Charles West, an Afro-American returned soldier, and hurried him away to the uncled home where he was dead. He had been arrested in Jacksonville, Fla. on the day of having killed Emmett L. Brightwell, (white), a farmer of Richland, Ga., and was being returned to Americus to answer to the charge when he was lynch-murdered. The body was found late in the day hanging in a tree and riddled by bullets. A coroner's inquest held immediately returned a verdict that West came to his death at the hands of unidentified men. CORRESPONDENTS WANTED The old reliable Gazette desires an active agent and correspondent in every city and town in Ohio and neighoring states having a number of Afro-American residents. Only a little time on Fridays or Saturdays is required. We are especially destruous of hearing from persons in the following named cities: Springfield, Dayton, Piqua, Lima, O., and other places, particularly in Ohio, where we have none. Write to the editor of The Gazette, Blackstone building, Cleveland, O., and terms will be sent promptly. Our renders will oblige us greatly by at once the addresses of persons in the cities named and others in the state, to whom we can write relative to the matter. Subscribe Now Subscribe Now WAR RISK INSURANCE a Appeal To Our Soldiers To Save It That Should Be Headed. If all the 400,000 Afro-Americans who were in the army and navy during the World War do not keep up their War Risk Insurance it will not be the fault of our Welfare organizations throughout the country. Spurred by the fact that only about five p. c. of our solider boys are retaining their insurance now that they are out of the service, many of our leading organizations have started renewed activity to save for them the War Risk Insurance upon which they paid premiums while in the service. The average face value of each policy carried was $8,740. Although a large per cent of this insurance has been allowed to lapse, it has not been lost to the men under the liberal reinstatement of the World War. Our organizations not only are offering the men information as to their insurance rights and privileges, under the provisions of the War Risk Insurance Act, but are voluntarily aiding in an action regarding their insurance. The standard of rendering valuable work in co-operating with our representative is looking after the interests of our men in the bureau of the interests of our men in the government does not charge a higher premium because of dangerous employment, as is customary with commercial law hazardous companies. No matter how hazardous the job a man holds, he can be protected under the terms of government insurance. A disability clause is contained in government policies for which there is no extra charge. If totally and permanently disabled for any cause, the insured may get the benefits and no longer be required to pay premiums upon his insurance. "The government is in the life insurance business only for the benefit and protection of those who safeguarded the Nation in its greatest crisis, says William Willett. The charge of our men's interests in the Bureau of War Risk Insurance. "The Country's obligation to its fighting men did not end with the war, or when the men left the service. In discharge of an everlasting obligation Uncle Sam is offering his service men permanent insurance protection by extending to them the privilege of keeping their Government Insurance. Such an insurance policy is an asset with which to begin any career." Every dollar of the insurance carried by our men can be reinstated by paying only two months' premiums. Only the premiums for the month of grace following discharge, when the insured was fully protected, and for the month in which the reinstation takes place are required in order to again be fully protected. Our boys should not forget the fact that reinstation must be made within 18 months after discharge. Premiums should be paid by check, draft or money-order, payable to the Treasurer of the United States, and sent to the Premium Receipt Section, Bureau of War Risk Insurance, Washington, D.C. FACTS * * * People who Advertise Can sell Goods. * * * People who sell Goods Can make Money. * * * People who make Money can advertise goods. * * * The Best Advertising Medium is "The Old Reliable" GAZETTE. REMARKS ABOUT ADVERTISING While it is true that occasional advertising will bring extra business, it is equally true that constant, persistent advertising will keep business growing during "dull days." The merchant who considers riches a burden should never advertise. His store may be like a summer resort in January. Do YOU advertise? The merchant who never advertises under any circumstance or condition may imagine he is wise, but his competitors have no desire to disturb his imagination. It's a good time to "get awake." OUR OHIO CIVIL RIGHTS LAW Upon the request of many readers of The Gazette we print below the text of Hon. Harry C. Smith's Ohio Civil Rights law which the editor had enacted, while a member of the 71st General Assembly, in 1894: The General Code of Ohio: Sec. 12940. Whoever, being the proxitor or manager or manager of a restaurant, catheter or barber-shop, public convenience by land or water, theater or other place of public accommodation and amusement, denies to a citizen, except for reasons applicable alike to all citizens and regardless of race or color, the full enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages, facilities or privileges thereof, shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not less than thirty days nor more than ninety days, or both. Sec. 12941. Whoever violates the next preceding section shall also pay not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars to the person aggrieved thereby to be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction in the county where such offense was committed. This law has repeatedly been held constitutional and good law by the Ohio Supreme court. The trouble is our people will not use it as often as they should, but expect it to do for them what they should and must do for themselves, under it, in the courts. MATTIE HUNTER 4217 Cedar Ave. HAIR CULTURIST Kashmir and Walker Systems Hair and Skin Treatment APPOINTMENTS PREFERRED Rosedale 5217-J AND BARBER SHOP 3038 CENTRAL AVE. One of the Best in the city. Everybody Welcome! G. J. TATE, Proprietor. GENTS' FURNISHINGS, NECKWEAR. Hosiery, Underwear and Arrow Collars and Shirts, Hats, Caps, etc 2922 CENTRAL AVE. Office and Funeral Parlors 2323 CENTRAL AVE. Autos for All Occasions. Calls Answered Day and Night Y.M.C.U. First-Class Restaurant, Reading Room, Bath and Other Conveniences. Hall for lodge and other meetings. Gymnasium, &c., to be installed soon. LADIES' AUXILIARY MEETS EVERY TUESDAY EVENING. MEN'S LYCEUM FROM 4 to 6 P. M. EVERY SUNDAY. ALL WELCOME. NOAH ESCUE, Pres. C. MORGAN DARNEY, Fin. Sec. LEWIS PRESTON, Treas. B. A. FOSTER, Mgr. H. M. LOWRY, Soliciting Secretary. SANTAL CARPULLES MIDY BLADDER beloved in 24 HOURS Each Can solo beats the MIDY name 449 Office Hours----4:30 to 7:30 P.M. Dr. O. A. Taylor PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON 2288 E. 49th St., Cleveland, O. The Douglass Club For Political & Social Advancement LOGAN OWENS, Treasurer. 2828 Central Ave. Cleveland, O. MATTIE 4217 CENT HAIR CU Kashmir and Walker Systems APPOINTMENT Rosedale PATRIC JOE HEDGES' AND BAR 3038 CENT One of the Best in the COIN CENTRAL S A RACE G. J. TATE, GENTS' FURNISHINGS, Hosiery, Underwear and Arrow C 2922 CENT Phone Prospect 441-J. Rosedale 1800 Quality SLAUGHTY Funeral Dia Embal Office and Fun 2922 CENT Autos for All Occasions, Cal Try Our Box Back Tailor Made Suits THEY FIT Men's Suits pressed, 50c. Cleaned, $1.25. We do all kinds of alterations. Cox Dry Cleaning & Tailoring Co. Tailors and Dry Cleaners. 2738 Central Ave. 'Phone, Central 4069L. Y.M. LODGING 2364-2366 East HENRY L. THOMAS Attorney and Counselor at Law 612 Superior Building Cleveland, O. Central 2251-R ROBERT FISHER Attorney and Counselor at Law 819 American Trust Building Cleveland, Ohio Tel Central 1400-W. J. E. WALDEN PHENOMENAL BANJOIST Teacher of Mandolin, Banjo and Guitar LESSONS: 75c carv. Two a week, $1.40 Convert work solicited J. E. WALDEN Room 9 Y. M. C. U. BLDG. 2364-66 E. 55th St. Cleve'snd, Ohio. W. W. MAY Carpenter--Builder Screening & General Repairing a Specialty Residence, 2347 E. 86th St. Phone, Gar. 6049-J. HUNTER Ear Ave. CULTURIST Hair and Skin Treatment PREFERRED 5217-J ONIZE POOL ROOM BER SHOP NAL AVE. City. Everybody Wel- co! HIRT SHOP ENTERPRISE Proprietor. NECKWEAR. Dollars and Shirts, Hats, Caps, etc NAL AVE. City Service Central 7235 R BER BROS. Directors and almers General Parlors NAL AVE. Is Answered Day and Night A. B. C.U. OR MEN. th St., Cleveland, O. Room, Bath and Other Conveni- ```markdown ``` 33rd Street and Wabash Avenue Chicago, Ill. South Side Elevated Indiana Avenue or State Street Cars Take You Within a Block of the Hotel. Twenty Minutes to Principal Theatres All rooms have hot and cold running water, telephone, electric lights, steam heat and elevator service, day and night All Rooms With Outside Exposure Rates per day.....$1.00 to $ 3.00 Rates per week.....3.50 to 12.00 Twenty Rooms With Private Baths Douglass, 4676 and 4677 Auto. 74-302 Office Phones: Main 2912; Central 1424-R Residence, 614 E. 107th St. Phone, Eddy 2318-J Attorney-at-Law Room 510, Blackstone Building 1426 West 3rd Street Dr. N. K. Christopher Office Hours: 10 a. m. to 1 p. m. 3 p. m. to 8 p. m. Sundays by Appointment 2284 E. 55th St. Cleveland, O. 'Phone, Rosedale 6165 Bell 'Phone Rosedale 5598 Residence, Garfield 2630 Hours: 9-11 A. M.—1-3 P. M.—6-8 P. M. Sunday's 3-5 P. M. E. J. GREGG, M. D. 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Beat the high cost of living by letting us make your old clothes new A Good Meal at THE ARGONNE RESTAURANT HOME-COOKING! 3341 Central Ave. 3341 Popular Prices Jesse B. Green, Prop. BOTH PHONES The best prescription ever written can be spoiled by cheap drugs and carelessness in filling. The Brown Drug Co., corner of E. 28th St. and Central Ave., have filled over 100,000 prescriptions correctly. There is a reason.—Adv. Where to Purchase The Gazette Where to Purchase The Gazette E. R. BR 3708 6 *OPEN* NOTICE TO Subscribers not receiving The us at once. We desire every copy Send or bring locals and all office, 214-215 Blackstone Bldg. there, please. We advise our readers to can vertiseements before making puri tise in this paper should have the fact that they advertise is assu All matters for publication must be in the office by 4 p. m. W latest. E. R. BROWNS, 3708 Central Ave. *OPEN SUNDAYS.* Subscribers not receiving The Gazette regularly should notify us at once. We desire every copy delivered promptly. Send or bring locals and all business matters to The Gazette's office, 214-215 Blackstone Bldg. If you wish to see the editor call there, please. We advise our readers to carefully examine The Gazette's advertisements before making purchases. Business men who advertise in this paper should have the patronage of our people. The fact that they advertise is assurance that they want it. All matters for publication in current issues of The Gazette must be in the office by 4 p. m., WEDNESDAY of that week, at the latest. The Ohio State Telephone Classified Advertising ... Department ... FOR SALE CHEAP Two single and 1 two-family houses, 2913-2915 and 2917 Ambler St. near E. 105th St. car line. Price $6.500 for all; half cash. Street paved and paid. Inquire at Room 5, New Court House. Jas H. Lawrence. CLEVELAND Social and Personal Merry Christmas and Happy New Year—to all! Messrs. Trotter and Baldwin went to Harrisburg, Monday. They will return to Cleveland in about six weeks. The Royal Inn entertained as Christmas guests, Wednesday from 2 to 4 P. M., many poor children of the race. Good! A New Year's gift de luxe for a friend is a year's subscription to "The Old Reliable" Gazette. Until next Thursday, only $1.50 a year. You get exactly what your doctor orders when the Brown Drug Co., corner E. 28th St. and Central Ave., fills your prescription—Adv. When the Benjamin Drug Co. puts the promised "Colored lady clerk" to work in their drug store, cor. Central Ave. and E. 30th St. patronize it. Rev. Fred. Corbin's son, age 4 years, died at Lorain, Dec. 7 and was buried there on the 9th. The child was a grandson of "Auntie" Morrison, 3112 Newton Ct. Donot wait for the collector to call on you, but do as many have done the past week—either call, send or mail your overdue subscription money. It is so much pleasanter. It is said that Mrs. Marie Allmond, 9012 Blaime Ave., was granted a divorce, Dec. 18, from her husband Fred E. Charge, cruelty and neglect. The Allmonds had been married 10 years. The expression, so and so "put Cleveland on the map," is silly, positively silly! It was on the map or those using the expression and others would never have found this "haven of refuge" for them. Holy communion at St. Marks Presbyterian church, Sunday, was observed by a large number. Ten persons were publically received into membership and S. Haynes and Clarence Perry were baptized. L. R. Carey, Herbert Beard and Robert Fowler left for the Carey home at New Vienna to spend the Xmas holidays. They will also visit Carthageenia, Hillsboro, Washington C. H., and Cincinnati. After Jan. 1, 1920, The Gazette will be two dollars a year! If you owe for your subscription be sure to pay before the first of the new year and save fifty cents! Our advertisers want your trade. Those who do not ask for it in the Gazette certainly care little, if at all for it. Therefore, we urge our readers and all of our friends to patronize who ask for your trade in this paper. Mrs. Mary Braxton Roberts left, last week, to spend the holidays with relatives at her old home, Harrisburg, Pa. On her return she will be accompanied by a brother. Mrs. Roberts called on The Gazette, last week Friday. Miss Ruth Anna Fisher of Lorain, who spent the last year in N. Y. City, where she has employment, was in the city, a few hours last week Friday, coming from Lorain where she is visiting her mother, Mrs. D. C. Fisher who is ill. She called on The Gazette. Among the many Christmas remembrances and cards received, this week, by the editor of The Gazette were a box of high grade Havanna cigars from Bishop and Mrs. E. Thomas Demby of Little Rock, Ark., and a serviceable and valuable pocket-book from the Richi Printing Co., this city. Civil service examinations for railway mail clerks and salaries of $1,300 and $1,400, Jan. 17, in Room 501. Federal building. Examinations for Cleveland postoffice clerks and carriers will be held, Jan. 10. Salaries for the postoffice work range from $1,200 to $1,650. Jos. Harris, proprietor of the Royal Inn, surprised, most agreeably, his hosts of friends by returning home from Mt. Sinai hospital, last week Thursday evening. He is convalescing rapidly. His physicians say that his case is one of a thousand—to recover. The Douglass club will be moved, in a few days, to the Edward Doctor Cafe building, 3033 Central Ave. Robert Bryant and Friend Doctor have sold their interest in the business to "Starlight Bod for $1750, Mr. Doctor retaining other interests therein. Mr. assistant has gone to Akron where he will enter business for himself, after Jan. 1, '20. The lecture, last Thursday evening, at Cory M. E. church was another disappointment in point of attendance because of the failure to properly advertise Editor Trotter's ```markdown ``` J. S. HALL'S 3121 Central Ave. J. F. BRANHAM'S 4219 Central Ave. JACKSON'S. 4401 Central Ave. *PHILLIP LURIE. 3051 Central Ave. *DR. WEAVER'S 3315 Central Ave. *ERNEST P. JACKSON'S 3369 Central Ave. W. T. GRANT, 3512 Central Ave. *M. GORDON'S, 2928 Central Ave. coming. His lecture and Mr. L. F. Baldwin's talks were fine and would have been heard by a crowded church auditorium if our people of this community had known of their coming. The stores up Central Ave. are charging 18 and 19 cents a gallon for a poor grade of coal-oil when you can get "Ray-o-light," the best coal-oil, for 14 cents a gallon at the various auto stations through the city. Unreasonable increased charges for many other necessities in the home are the rule in those stores. Prices in nearly every other section of the city are lower. Do not encourage the alleged "Nurses home" movement inaugurated by some person or persons who donot seem to know when the race has segregation enough and more. Our local police officers they don't agree any such segregation-"jim-crow" affair and feel that those trying to promote it ought to go back South where they can again get their "fill" of such "separation." Two months ago a local Baptist church pastor was forced to leave the city by a woman, it is said. Now another pastor of one of our leading local Baptist churches is "in hot water" again because of his alleged connection with a woman other than his wife. There have been several meetings of members of the church and the "pot is boiling" at a great rate. Prof. and Mrs. M. H. Gassaway, who are stopping at 3638 Cedar Ave. forced to leave Anderson, S. C., because of activity in behalf of the race, will speak at the annual meet of the N. A. A. C. P. in N. Y. City, Jan. 5, and in this city at one of our churches, Sunday. He is in the employment of the Cleveland Provision Co., as a meat weigher, and taught school in Anderson. Louia V. Jones, the popular and gifted young violinist, a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music of Boston, will give a recital in Epworth Memorial church, Prospect Ave. and E. 55th St., Monday evening, Dec. 29. As this is Mr. Jones first local concert appearance since his graduation, Cleveland's music loving public should turn out en masse to hear their native son. It will be THE musical affair of the holiday season. Cuyahoga Lodge, No. 95, I. P. O. E. of W. have just elected the following officers for the ensuing term: Marcellus Mason, ex-ruler; John W. Redd, esteemed leading knight; Geo.anda esteemed loyal knight; Lucian C. esteemed lecturing; J. C. Hudson, sec. sec.; Roger N. Dillard, cor. sec.; Thos. W. Fleming, treas; Joe Wallace, esquire; Henry W. Burrell, tyler; Isaac Turner, chapain; W. W. Williams, C. P. Lancaster and Howard S. Slaughter, trustees; Dr. M. L. Crawford, medical examiner. The third and last Recreation Survey Luncheon was held in the Hollend堡 Hotel ball room, last Saturday. Mr. Rowland Haynes, director of Community service, New York City, and directing consultant of the Cleveland Recreation Survey, presented a wide recreation program. The City Club and the Women's City Club omitted their regular meetings to join the Cleveland Foundation in this final meeting. The attendance was unusually large. The meeting dealt with the agencies for recreation supported by the city government and the public schools, and summarized the Survey findings in the form of a complete recreation program for Level-headed and intelligently aggressive, our old friend, the Hon. Harry C. Smith, editor of The Cleveland (O.) Gazette is "putting 'em over" in great shape these days. He is one of the pioneers of plain speaking on the part of the race press, and his wonderful success in pushing the Civil Rights Law and Violence or Lying Law through the Ohio legislature in 1894 and 1996, respectively; in fighting "The Birth of a Nation" out of the "Buckeye State," and in breaking down the local shams and pretenders in the political life of Cleveland, are just a law of the triumphs he has achieved through his courageous utterances at crucial periods in our progress. Editor Smith is absolutely unpredictable, and a "leader" fails to land on the right side of a proposition he is likely to run after, and lengthy per-wonder Gazette and go to the mat for a knock-out — R. W. Thompson Washington, D. C. correspondent, in Baltimore (Md.) Daily Herald. Cory M. E. church was comfortably well filled, Sunday afternoon, owing to the activity of Richard L. Sissle, and the mass meeting was a success. Editor Wm. Monroe Trotter of the Boston Guardian was the principal speaker and was ably assisted by Louis F. Baldwin of N. Y. City, former resident and old newspaper man of Boston. Both made eloquent speeches and appealed to our people to fight all forms of segregation and to get closer together in great struggle for the right to privilege in this country. Mr. Trotter's graphic description of his efforts to get Paris, France, to attend the World's Peace Conference, his experiences while there and work for the race was thrillingly interesting and real encouraging. Mr. Baldwin's references to Mr. Trotter were pertinent and thorny appreciated as well as the rest of his excellent speech. Both are fluent and pleasing speak- ers.' They were well introduced by the chairman of the meeting, Geo. W. Johnson, long time friend of Editor Trouster. The following resolution was unanimously adopted on ordered sent to the Congress of the U. S: "Resolved; that this Equal Rights League mass meeting of Afro-Americans of the city of Cleveland, Ohio, protects against the refusal of both branches of the U. S. Congress to so amend the bills (for the return of the railroads to private ownership) as to forbid in the future that grossest of violations of the principles and ideals of democracy—segregation for color of interstate passengers. We now avow our determination to contend for federal legislation to abolish this color proscription." The bene- SATISFYING FROM Sloan's Lini punch the rheumat- this warmth, seating circular city, penetrates us the aching spot left, surely, clean for external pain, headaches. I Get your bottle means much. As Editor Wm. Monroe Trotter diction was pronounced by Rev. J. F Selkridge. From this meeting the speakers and the chairman were escorted to the Caterers' Association club house, in E. 40th St., where an anti-segregation meeting and reception were held from 6 to 8 p. m. The speakers were Messrs. Trotter, Baldwin, Dr. E. A. Bailey, Charles S. Smith, Robert K. Hodges and Attorney Harry E. Davis who presided All took strong ground against that iniquity, scoring the "jim crow" Y. M. C. A. idea, the Nurses' home and all kindred segregation movements Dr. Bailey's speech was especially pleasing and telling. From there Messrs. Trotter, Baldwin and Johnson repaired to the Royal Inn where they were entertained at a sumptuous dinner by the Hon. Harry C. Smith editor of The Gazette. Messrs. Trotter and Baldwin were guests of Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Johnson, 8912 Kemore Ave. who provided a delicious lunch for them and Mr. Johnson on their arrival there near midnight Sunday. "WE TOLD YOU SO"! When the editor of The Gazette, in testifying before the Councilmanic Investigating Committee, two years ago, told of the fearfully immoral and otherwise bad conditions existing in ward 11 and other parts of the city that the Daily News was among those who attempted to discredit our testimony. At the time we warned the people of this community that, in spite of the statements of the News, certain ministers and others, under the influence, direct or indirect, of the local city administration, and the administration itself, it would not be long before they would be forced to take cognizance of the statements, facts, we had given, and it was not long. Not as long as we really expected it would take. Last winter the miserable conditions we called attention to grew so much worse that an "official crime investigation," which proved all but a farce, was literally forced by them. In October 2011, even the Cleveland Daily News if you please, the first since the editor of The Gazette did so, two years ago, to place the blame and responsibility for the really terrible conditions still existing in Cleveland right where they belong—at the door of the Maschke-diary administration. The "underworld" were promised an "open town" when Mayor Davis was a candidate four years ago and everybody in this city during the past four years knows that the promise has been kept—Maschke and Davis "made good!" The result? Cleveland is the mecca, and has been for more than three years, for murderers, thieves, gamblers and other denizens of the underworld, of the entire country. As a life-long Republican, who did not vote for Mayor Davis but did vote for the local candidate for the position, we say that Dr. Robert Bishop was entirely correct when he stated repeatedly, during the recent local campaign, that Cleveland must unload the Maschke-Davis combination (city administration) to get rid of the immoral and criminal cesspool it is and has been wallowing in for nearly four years. "AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN" That "spells" Officer Jones of the third precinct. Sunday evening, going east on a Central Ave., street car three "crackers" undertook to "run things," beginning by "roughing" Brother Jones, never dreaming that he was a policeman because he was dressed neatly (as usual) in citizen's clothes. Even after he tried twice to get two of them to let him alone, they would not do so. Then he showed them his badge and told them he was a policeman, and still one of them persisted in "roughing" him (bumping up against him) while the other one "said things" unprintable. Twice more did Jones shove the fool away from him. Well, he was finally forced to get into action and then things began to happen quickly, artistically, beautifully, while the well-filled car of men and women (both races) looked on in admiration. Brother Jones is simply "greased lightening" when he gets started. Out shot his trusty right fist and blood spurted from the nose of the chief offender who, in spite of that, came back for another "bust" in the nose and then, whirling like a chicken after its head is cut off, fell flat on his back in the rear vestibule of the car. Then his gardner, who "said things" unprintable, got into action again, and Officer Jones so quickly, skilfully and artistically straightened his crooked nose that it looked as if blood spurted from the "busted" proboscis even before the blow was struck. Result: "crackers" sorer than ever in their lives, if not wiser. The one-third We stand ready at all times to replace any dentistry that does not give perfect satisfaction to the patient. We use only the very best dental materials money can buy. Therefore, the work must be right, and we personally guarantee it. Our specialized bridge work stays permanently in place. SATISFYING RELIEF FROM LUMBAGO Sloan's Liniment has the punch that relieves rheumatic twinges This warmth-giving, congestion-scattering circulation-stimulating remedy penetrates without rubbing right to the aching spot and brings quick relief, surely a blessing for the pained pains, sprains, strains, stiffness, headaches, lumbago, bruises. Get your bottle today—costs little, means much. Ask your drunkist for it by name. Keep it handy for the whole family. The big bottle is econ- omy. 35c, 70c. $1.40. Sloan's Liniment Keep it handy drunk cowards never even offered to strike the officer because they saw too many of our young men in the car and knew what would happen if they dared to do so. The third "cracker" thrust all this stood in the corner of the vestibule near the door trying to "pick a fuse" with an innocent-looking member of the race who would not reply to him. Jones ordered the conductor to stop the car and finally got him to do so long enough for him to throw off one bodily and "yank" off the other two. Then the car went on. We understand that he sent two to the third precinct lice station but that third got lice away. Mr. John Timen, of Jack Timen's pharmacy Central & E. 75th Street, a representative of The Gazette, later the same evening, that the one that got away had appeared at the pharmacy requiring where the station (jail) was and saying he wanted to get his parimers out. He remarked that if they "had had that d—n— down south they would have hung him to a pole." No doubt of it. But they were NOT "down south." Mr. Timen told him he'd better not go outside and say that loud enough to be heard or he might land on top of a telegraph pole. This was the crooked nose "cracker." Mr. Timen said. As far as he is interested in work we was the most witnessed in any car his city and we have lived many years. Before getting to Brother Jones two of the scoundrels leered in the faces of two women (white) seated in the car, who appeared to be mother and daughter. More power to Officer Jones of the third precinct police station of Cleveland, O. MAIN THEATRE O. E. Belles, Manager. Scovill Ave, and E. 25th St. Friday, Dec. 26. KATHERINE McDONALD in "The Thunderbolt." Also W. S. HART in "Jim Cameron's Wife" and Fay Tincher comedy, "Wild and Western." Saturday, Dec. 27. ANITA STEWART in "Her Kingdom of Dreams." Also a Mack Sennet comedy, "Cupid's Day Off." Sunday, Dec. 28. GLADYS BROCKWELL in "Chasing Rainbows." Also CLEO MADISON in "The Great Radium Mystery." No. 9. Monday, Dec. 29. MARY MAC LAREN in "Bonnie, Bonnie Lassie." Some picture. Don't fail to see it. Also GEO. SEITZ in "Bound and Gagged." No. 10. Tuesday, Dec. 30. TAYLOR HOLMES in "Taxi." Also PEARL WHITE in "The Black Secret," No. 7. Wednesday, Dec. 31. CHAS. RAY in "The Girl Dodger." Also JAMES J. CORBET in "The Midnight Man." No. 15. 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This undoubtedly explains, at least in part, his splendid work told at length in the following. What a pity the race has not more MEN and women of his type here and elsewhere in the North! We are watching to see how many of the "big Negroes" here are going to his assistance in this fight for the race. The Grimkes, Prof. Kelly Miller, Judge Terrell, Prof. Geo. W. Cook, Prof. Roscoe C. Bruce and a score of others are being watched to see what if any part they take in this contest: For a month, or more, Prof. Thomas has been fighting the Justices of the District Supreme Court to make them open the restaurant in the Court House to colored lawyers, litigants, and the public in general. His efforts have been met with all sorts of subterfuges, but Mr. Thomas is not the one to be set aside, or fooled by subterfuges. Two colored ladies, litigants in the Court, were recently refused before a large crowd of white people when they repaired to the restaurant for lunch. Mr. Thomas did not want to bring their names into the controversy, since they had a case to be decided by these same judges who were thought to be responsible for the discrimination. So he went down last week and got his case. He was given three excuses in the name of the Court, namely that the restaurant was for a "Bar Association," that the Court was going to establish a colored restaurant, and that colored people could not be served by order of the Court. Mr. Thomas sent three vigorous letters to the Court denying its right to exclude colored people from any of the privileges of the Court House, or to give over our public building to any white "Bar Association" to which all lawyers could not belong, or to insult the colored people and degrade the Court by establishing a colored restaurant. He received a written assurance from the chief justice that the discrimination would cease, and that the colored public would get "equal service" there. He went again this week, suspecting a weakness of that "equal service" phrase of the colored restaurant had been cut out on a screen at the door. He demanded service in the main restaurant, and received it after sending word to the justice that he dared him to come in and remove him, or even ask him to go over to the "jim-crow" room. When seen by our representative, Mr. Thomas said: "Yes, it is true that I made two tests of the Court House restaurant, and received service after challenging the justice to physical combat. I then went to the Chief Justice and told him that there would be an ugly scene if I were ever insulted again, that the colored lawyers and litigants were losing confidence in the Court, and that it could not discriminate in any portion of the building without staining its toga and sullying its sacred ermine. I told him that there could be no such thing as injustice upstairs and justice down-stairs; that if the Court could take away my civil rights on the second floor it could take my property rights on the first floor, or become the 13th member of a prejudice white jury and take away my life. "The Chief Justice then suggested the abolition of the restaurant altogether, but I told him that we could only consider that a spineless concession to prejudice. He denied all knowledge of the creation of the "jim-crow" adjunct, so I told him that the manager of the restaurant was remarkably accurate in her prophecy, as she told me that the Court was going to open it, as I had been contending for a month with the Court, and was receiving replies which I deemed inappropriate to what a fine man our colored judge told me. I told him that all white people like colored "men" who gave them no trouble about that distasteful subject of Negro rights. "He promised me to take up the matter with the full bench of six justices, so I told him I would be on hand to test the case again. The colored people should go there now and then to show the community that we have rights there. I told the justice I was protesting although I was his subordinate, which he is head, but that he could have a job, imprison me for contempt of court, or do anything else to me he wished." Good! Although both branches of the congress have Republican majorities the restaurants of the House and Senate refuse our people alone of all the local public and visitors out of the city. This and like discrimination, on top of the defeat of the Madden bill to wipe out "jim crow" cars as far as they affect interstate passengers, has not improved the morale of our people of this city and the country, to say the least. Southern "jim crow" Negroes are said to have helped to kill the Madden bill by writing to U. S. Senators and saying that its passage would cause much blood-letting in the southland. Lord, have mercy! Her Shoes Hurt Her Feet As a general thing, when you see a woman hobbling along the street with an agonized expression it is a sign that she's got more foot than head.—Dallas News. A FEDERAL ANTI-LYNCH LAW Impossible, Says the U. S. Supreme Court and the U. S. Attorney General's Office—A Memorial to Our Soldier Dead New York City—Col. Charles Young, who is to sail for Liberia as Military Attachie to the U. S. embassy, appeared before a large and appreciative audience, Sunday afternoon, at St. Mark's church, this city, under the auspices of the National Urban League. Addresses were made by Eugene K. Jones, who presented the work of the League; A. L. Jackson, who spoke on its work of training and placing social workers, and Col. Wm. J. Schiefelmil, of the 15th N. Y. N. G., who, in emphasizing the need of the work of the League, spoke on the value of co-operation between the race. He spoke of Col. Young as one of the three great men who were refused participation in the war by the present administration—the others being Col. Theodore Roosevelt and Major General Leonard Wood. The principal address however was made by the Negras Young in white hose the Negras need in the field. He spoke of the Negras need in the form of reconstruction and readjustment. In discussing these needs, he laid special emphasis on two factors as fundamentals—economic and political. As an introduction to this connection he replied to an invitation to address a meeting in Washington to address a Congress for a memorial to be erected there to the Negro soldier dead. In declining to take part in the meeting, Col. Young said that he desired no such separate memorial from Congress a memorial to the Negro dead and that that memorial be the thing for which these Negroes gave their lives—liberty, justice, equal opportunities and educational facilities, the suppression of lynching by making it a federal crime, the abolition of "jim-crow" cars. He continued that all the monuments of great men in America belong to Negroes as well as to whites and Negro children should be taught to love them and reverence them, and also to learn the history of the African people, learn that there is an African culture perhaps older than that of any modern people in literature, in art and in science. Continuing, he said: "In its economic need the Negro should first pay heed to the cultivation of the land. I believe that the prophecy of Alexander Crummell that the Negroes will possess the south is fast becoming a fact thru the purchase by Negroes of innumerable small farms. This is fundamental for the sustenance of the species and therefore first in the economic plan. The development of the trades is the second step in the maintenance of readiness that is, the knowledge of how to use machinery in order to utilize the crude products of the land. After this there must be bankers and banking, there must be insurance and insurance men, there must be the development of men for the professions. Then we can "Walk in Jerusalem, just like John." Speaking of the political needs of the Negro Col. Young said that one of the first things that black men and women must understand is that they must stand up for everything American and nothing else. "Not even one of our own should be supported in he is less than American. I am for the best," said Col. Young. "whether be a black man or a white man. We must establish voters' leagues in order to teach men and women how to vote; that the oath is absolutely sacred and that its abuse degrades the one who abuses it. Negro men must be all American, they must tolerate neither murder nor nunchalk any more than they would tolerate the destruction of the sanctity of their homes. More force than is necessary to maintain one's self respect and to defend the sanctity of one's home is murder. There must be education, there must be culture, including good manners and courtesies, that is within the race. There must be social centers, and social agencies, which must be used for these purposes, if we want to be the "blameless race of Ethiopia" as characterized by Herodius." THE MAN WHO DARES. "I honor the man who in the conscientious discharge of his duty dares to stand alone; the world, with ignorant, intolerant judgment, may condemn, the countenances of relatives, the hearts of friends, grow cold, but the sense of duty done shall be sweeter than the applause of the world, the countenances of relatives or the hearts of friends."—Charles Sumner. OUR LESSON We must learn to govern ourselves and work together for our own advancement. If we do not learn to govern ourselves and work together for our own advancement, we may be very sure that we will be governed by others in their own interest as well as worked by others for their own advancement and not our.—George W. Blount. New Away You and or an Ac THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, OHIO, DECEMBER 27, 1919 3036 A POPULAR STYLE 2026. Here is a very attractive one-piece dress. The closing is affected at the left side of the panel front. The sleeve shows a new style feature in the cuff shaping. This is a good model for serge with satin, velvet with faille or moiré, or for any plain cloth with a trimming of braid or embroidery. The Pattern is cut in 7 sizes: 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 and 46 inches bust measure. Size 38 requires 5½ yards of 44-inch material. The dress measures about 2 yards at lower edge, with plaits extended. 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"Me?" exclaimed the helpful man. "What have I got to do with it?" "Everything, apparently," said the conductor. "She happened to look back here when I spoke to her. She knew you knew, and that it would be all right. There she is now, standing up and nodding at you. Know er!" "Yes," said the man weakly, "she's my wife." Journalism and Pulchettude. A photographer in an Iowa town was called upon not long ago to make some pictures of an old lady of seventy years or so, but of surprising agility and quickness of perception. The picture man was, therefore, somewhat surprised to find that no words of address could induce the old lady to speak until after the operation was completed. Then she put her fingers into her mouth, whence she withdrew several wads of paper. "You wouldn't have me photographed with my cheeks falling in, would you?" she asked the photographer. "I just stuffed two pages of the Des Moines Register in my mouth to fill out." An Indefinite Number Three-year-old Andrew was in a rather petulant mood, and in order to restore his customary good humor his mother promised him some preserved strawberries if he would be a good boy. Calling a servant, she said: "Jennie, please give Andrew about four strawberries." Jennie proceeded to fulfill the wish of her mistress, and counted out the berries: "One, two, three, four." "I want five," protested the child. "But our mother said four," said Jennie. "Mamma said 'about four,'" replied Andrew. Jinks—literally something about an author committing suicide THE KITCHEN CABINET Worry less and work more, Ride less and walk more Frown less and smile more, Talk less and think more. WHOLESOME MEATLESS DISHES Though cheese, eggs, dried beans and peas, nuts and fish are all equivalent in food value to meat, they will not take its place in the menu unless they are combined with other foods which contain the equivalent of meat in the bulk. 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